COOPERSTOWN CONSIDERING COMMUNITY SOLAR PROGRAM COOPERSTOWN The Village of Cooperstown and Town of Otsego have begun discussing a “community solar program,” Village Trustee Lou Allstadt, the clean-energy advocate, told a program sponsored by Sustainable Otsego in the county Courthouse this evening. The idea of the program, described earlier by Jessica Azulay, with the Alliance for a Green Economy, would be to create a community solar farm that would share the energy and cost savings community wide.…
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Who will pay for NY HEAT? The cost of a $672-million bailout for a few of the hundreds of thousands of utility customers currently in arrears will be borne by other utility customers. Every New Yorker will help fund subsidies for industrial solar and wind projects which could gobble up a million acres and yet fail to provide reliable electricity.…
Under the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, a group of political appointees—the Climate Action Council—was charged with developing a scoping plan to achieve major decarbonization goals in the law. Their plan, as implemented by the state energy and research development authority, NYSERDA, would require 55 gigawatts of solar, 10 GW of onshore wind, and 17 GW of offshore wind.…
Dennis Higgins and Keith Schue will speak about the New York State Climate Action Plan in a free community presentation next Wednesday, August 16 at 7 p.m. at the Litchfield Town Hall. The presentation, titled “Can New York Combat Climate Change Without Destroying Communities?” will address such concerns as ecological impact, cost to taxpayers and the state’s accelerated renewable-siting process.…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Jan. 16-17, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Solar Developer Offers $1,000 Per Acre Penn. Firm Buying Bank Of Cooperstown Cooperstown Theatre Festival Founder Dies In Departing, Korthauer Makes History Benefactor Adds $30K To Shelter’s $236K Preservationists Joust Over Cooperstown Home EDITORIAL With Expertise, Even Temperament, City Manager Korthauer Cracks Code COLUMNS SEWARD: Job #1 For NYS: Halt Outmigration YOUNGS: Foothills Is Now Economic Driver McREYNOLDS: Heartache In The Heartland…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Jan. 2-3, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Social Media Buoys ‘Gun Sanctuary’ Effort Catskill Symphony Picks Polish Conductor DOT Denied Grant; Now, Pedestrian Felled ‘Shelter Us’ Campaign Goal At $5 Million Public Hearing Set On Bassett Parking Lot EDITORIALS 2019 Full Of Oddities, But Things Change In New Decade, We’ll Get What We Expect COLUMNS SEWARD: Lawless Rewarded, Lives Endangered? ZAGATA: Save Eagles From Environmentalism LETTERS to the EDITOR…
2019 CITIZEN OF THE YEAR The Kennedy Method County Rep Shepherds In Professional Management, Energy Task Force, More By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com HARTWICK – Leadership gravitated toward Meg Kennedy, to hear her tell her story. She first realized that was happening at an Oneonta Farmers’ Market vendors’ meeting in 2008 or 2009, where a difficult issue was being debated. As the point of decision approached, Tom Warren, who runs the Stone & Thistle Farm, raising meadow-fed lamb…
EDITORIAL Democrats Signal Plans To Republicans Otego-Laurens District 3 Shift Can Take Away GOP’s Majority Friends, the Democrats are coming to get us, and it isn’t going to be pretty. Chad McEvoy, the local party’s brainy director of communications, sent out an email on Oct. 1 that affirms an editorial that appeared here in early summer – the future of party politics in Otsego County will be determined in District 3, where two newcomers, Republican Rick Brockway and Democrat Caitlin…
CONTROLLING COUNTY BOARD Rick Brockway Family Legacy Made Political Bid Natural Step By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com LAURENS – A couple of months ago, Rick Brockway, a farrier by trade, arrived at a farm east of Stamford, just over the Schoharie County line. The grandmother there directed her grandkids: Go up to the pasture and bring down the horse. As they led the horse to be re-shoed, it got caught in a gate. It reared, and its front…
CLICK FOR TEXT OF FERC ORDER Constitution Pipeline Lives, FERC Decides DEC Decision On Stream Beds Overturned By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Constitution Pipeline is back from what many thought was the dead. Two weeks ago, FERC – the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission – issued an order that allows the 125-mile Constitution to proceed without the water-quality permits denied in April 2016 by the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The water-quality permits were necessary for the…